Ye Bible Troll Speaketh

sealover wrote:
Bushman may be the oldest survivors.

sealover wrote:
There is no doubt that the first humans evolved in Africa.

sealover wrote:
The bushman have such a unique language, it suggest many millenia of isolation.

sealover wrote:
But then, there is no way that the desert was their first choice of where to live.

sealover wrote:
And the Kalahari is some distance from the rift valley, where living conditions were presumably better.

sealover wrote:
A more vicious tribe drove them out to live in a place nobody would want to kill them to get their territory. Bushman culture is not a very violent.

sealover wrote:
I assume something similar happened to the people who live on the ice.

sealover wrote:
A more violent tribe drove them out, so they went to a place where nobody would kill them to take their territory. Their culture is not very violent, unless you are a seal.

sealover wrote:
Their choice to avoid extinction by living where nobody would kill them also isolated them from any outbreeding or major linguistic changes.

sealover wrote:
So, yes, they are perhaps our closest living relatives to Adam and Eve.

sealover wrote:
About that glacial till in the Midwest.

sealover wrote:
One main branch of soil science is pedology - essentially the study of soil formation.

sealover wrote:
One the important "state factors of soil formation", as per Hans Jenny, is TIME, or soil age.

sealover wrote:
That one is easy in the Midwest of the US

Soils of the Great Plains all formed at about the same time when the northward retreating glacier exposed the glacial till it laid down on its way south.

sealover wrote:
That was about 11000 years ago.